Please be honest, I think I can take it!

What do you think of our front runner for a baby boy... EmersonBanjo? I don't feel like it is going to be received well, but I am putting it out there to be judged, so give it to me straight

Emerson really wasn't what I was looking for, I'm not even sure that it fits with our other children's names, but I just love it, and miraculously my husband agrees with me! I don't love that it is unisex, but there were 8 baby boys and 14 baby girls named Emerson in my state (Victoria, Australia), last year so I don't think it has completely gone to the girls just yet!

Banjo is after the Australian poet BanjoPatterson, our older children all have middle names for our favourite literary icons, so Banjo works. However we are open to other middle names, some that we were thinking of are Christopher, Kipling, and Wilde.

I only have one niggling issue with this combo, will people assume, with knowledge of our middle name pattern, that Emerson is named after RalphWaldoEmerson? I really hope not because I am not a fan of any of his work, what do you think?

Thanks,

Imm

P.S. Before anyone mentions it, we know about Emerson and Tennyson rhyming and both being -son names, but it really doesn't bother us, we never use Jack's middle name.

Upon first look at the name, to be honest, I cringed. Emerson is great, but Banjo? Then I saw your reasoning behind choosing the name and I got it and loved it. Being from the US, I've never heard of BanjoPatterson.

I think since all your other literary nods are in the middle, you are safe from association with any first name you use, so I wouldn't worry about RWE.

Also, with Tennyson in the middle, I don't know that I would have noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out

I really like Emerson, and have only ever heard it on a boy. As long as you're okay with it being unisex, then go for it. I honestly thought Banjo was really silly. But if it holds some significance to you and your partner, then go for it!